Yes, that is me on top of our other RV, the one we have parked on our RV lot. Seems that the air conditioners were not conditioning the air. Meaning it was really hot day and neither AC was cooling. For some reason my other half thought this to be a rather intolerable situation, so up on top I went to see what I likely couldn’t see. And yes, we turned the thermostat on and off, pulled the fuse and shut the breakers off, all to no avail. I wiggled what I could wiggle up there, then once again shut everything off. When we turned everything back on the rear air conditioner started working. Repairman Rob.
Getting up and down from the roof isn’t as easy as it was in years gone by. My wife’s older sister had a saying, “Getting old is pigeon poop.” You know, she really did know what she was talking about. We miss you, Katherine.
Two brands of Rompope available locally at our favorite liquor store.
Different brands, but both “packed by” the same company. My guess is that “packed by” means bottled by, but I certainly could be wrong. They were also imported by the same importer. We haven’t tasted them yet, but hopefully they will be different since the color is not the same. (The one on the right in the top photo is slightly darker.)The glass bottles are identical with both having the word Coronado raised in the glass at the shoulder. Maybe I’ll have to report on how they compared, not only with each other but with the other two brands we bought. Right now the La Casita brand we bought in Mexico last year is the best by far.
One of our favorite foods are enchiladas. There are a number of ways to make them and over time we have come to like these as both the easiest and most flavorful.
The ingredients: corn tortillas that have just been cooked, Oaxaca cheese, homemade refried beans, shredded cooked chicken, jalapeno pepper, Mexican Crema (sour cream), Hatch green chili enchilada sauce, a baking pan sized to hold enchiladas and a glass of wine. We have made our own enchilada sauce in the past, but the Hatch sauce is convenient, tastes great and contains pieces of Hatch chili peppers.
We make two types of enchiladas, chicken and bean. The process is simple. We spread some enchilada sauce in the bottom of the baking pan, smear a tortilla around in it, place either chicken of beans in the tortilla, and add some crema.
On top of this goes the cheese. The tortilla is rolled up and placed in the pan. We alternate the chicken and beans so when we serve them we get one of each style.
The baking pan filled with enchiladas. The small bowls of chicken, beans and cheese make it easy to build the enchiladas. It is messy, smearing the tortilla in the sauce, then taking a hand full of chicken, and later cheese and using the smaller bowls and occasionally refilling them keeps us when getting the ingredients all mixed together.
I like a slice of fresh jalapeno pepper on mine, then the rest of the can of enchilada sauce is poured over the enchiladas and it is topped with cheese. We bake them for 30 minutes at 325 degrees F (163 C). We like our enchiladas wet and sloppy and this gives the result we prefer.
Our enchiladas would never be pictured in a food advertisement, but do they ever taste beyond awesome. (We travel frequently and when we can’t find what we normally use, we use what is locally available and invariably the results are wet sloppy good tasting enchiladas, even if the taste may be somewhat different than these. Other people prefer beef enchiladas with red sauce, that’s just not something we like. It’s the great thing about food, we can make what we like.
In case you noticed the wine wasn’t added to the enchiladas, that’s true, but sure wasn’t wasted.
The garden area is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it is certainly immeasurably better than it was when we returned from our travels. Two tarps full of weeds and trimmings that we took down to the designated green waste area. There is a large sign there which states “No Plastic Bags”, yet people still throw plastic bags and plastic containers into the area. It’s easy to tell which Presidential candidate those uneducatable people voted for in the last U.S. election.
Needless to say I immediately did a fresh backup of all my files even though it is connected to a NAS. This is an all-in-one computer that I’ve had for quite a while and with Windows 11 just around the corner I’ll be able to replace it with one far better suited to all the photo and video editing I do. Besides, I have two other computers that I also use. To slightly change Rudyard Kipling’s famous quote, ‘A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too many computers.’
